Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 8

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A home movie featuring footage taken in Oklahoma during the middle and late 1920s by Solomon Sir Jones. It is the eighth in a collection of nine films and consists of a single reel of silent 16mm black-and-white acetate film. The film begins with men and women walking down the front stairs of a building. The same men and women are shown in a procession down the road wearing Masonic scarves and aprons. The camera shows the men and women standing in front of the building and also a wider angle view of the entire exterior of the building. There are also about half a dozen cars in front of the building. The next scene shows a motorcade with cars and motorcycles driving down a street. Some of the men on motorcycles appear to have on police officer uniforms. The next scene shows people at a racetrack watching jockeys and horses race.

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